- Additional Authors
- Yamada, Atsuhiro.
- Description
- 71 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- Ageing involves not one but several transitions. People move from working to not working, from relying upon labour income to relying on transfers. They also tend to live in smaller households, not only because any children will have moved away but also because, at some stage, a spouse dies. People move homes and sometimes they move back to live with their now grown-up children.This paper examines the wellbeing of people as they pass through the later stages of their life and through different labour market statuses and domestic statuses. It examines and compares nine countries – Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. It draws particularly from a special analysis of micro-data sets that report on incomes, but it complements this with an analysis of data on wealth, on consumption, on housing and on the use of in-kind services provided by the state.The paper is original in more than one way. First, its analysis is based upon the ...
- Series Statement
- OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers, 1815-1981 ; no.60
- Uniform Title
- OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers, no.60.
- Subject
- Social Issues/Migration/Health
- LCCN
- 10.1787/345816633534
- OCLC
- oecd-lib
- Author
Casey, Bernard.
- Title
Getting Older, Getting Poorer? [electronic resource]: A Study of the Earnings, Pensions, Assets and Living Arrangements of Older People in Nine Countries / Bernard Casey and Atsuhiro Yamada
- Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2002.
- Series
OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers, 1815-1981 ; no.60
OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers, 1815-1981 ; no.60.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Social Issues/Migration/Health
- Added Author
Yamada, Atsuhiro.
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/345816633534 doi